OAKLAND — A veteran sergeant became the highest-ranking female officer in the Oakland Police Department on Friday when she received her lieutenant’s badge as part of a promotion ceremony at City Hall.

There were other significant promotions as well, including the only woman to ever place first on the sergeant’s exam list and the elevation to lieutenant of a naturalized citizen born in Hong Kong.

Altogether, 10 officers were promoted by Chief Wayne Tucker during a ceremony attended by more than 300 relatives, friends, peers and city officials. They included a new deputy chief, a captain, two lieutenants and six sergeants.

The new deputy chief is Howard Jordan, a member of the department since 1988. He had been serving as acting deputy chief for the Bureau of Investigation since late last year. He also has extensive patrol experience and has been a SWAT commander.

The new captain is Dave Kozicki, who in his 24-year career has been a robbery and homicide investigator, traffic unit commander and SWAT team leader.

One of the new lieutenants is Sharon Williams, who has spent most of her 15-year career working patrol and narcotics units. Her last assignment was commander of Crime Reduction Team 4. She is the first woman to hold the lieutenant rank since the 2002 retirement of Jan Glenn-Davis, now chief of the California State University, East Bay Police Department.

Harry Hu is the other new lieutenant. Hu is an expert in Asian gangs and has also been lauded for his community relations work. Hu immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong in 1974, barely speaking English. He earned his citizenship five years later and joined the department in March 1981.

Promoted to sergeant from officer was Danielle Bowman, a six-year veteran who was the department’s public information officer. A graduate of Holy Names High School and a former police Explorer Scout, Bowman is the only woman to finish first in the sergeant’s promotional process.

Other new sergeants are Barry Donelan, Blair Alexander, Anthony Souza, Raymond Sethna and James Morris, who between them have 57 years of experience with the department.

Tucker praised the group, saying that being promoted “manifests the highest professional and ethical standards.” He said he is confident they will also be committed to the community and dispense the law fairly.

Harry Harris is a Pulitzer Prize winning breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He began his Oakland Tribune career in September 1965 as a 17-year-old copyboy. He became a reporter in 1972 and is considered one of the best crime and breaking news reporters in the country. He has covered tens of thousands of murders and other crimes in the East Bay. He has also mentored dozens of young reporters, some of whom continue to work in journalism today.

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.

At 6:03 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to reports of the robbery at the facility, 2301 Bancroft way, and learned that a man who snuck into the facility and began prowling through the building, taking cell phones and wallets from victims.

Investigators’ efforts to solve the case led to the arrests of Pablo Mendoza, 25, of Hayward, Brandon Follings, 26, of Oakland and Valeria Boden, 26, of Alameda, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.